John Steinbeck Berühmte Zitate
Zitate über Männer von John Steinbeck
Zitate über Menschen von John Steinbeck
Von Mäusen und Menschen, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, München 2007, ISBN 978342310797-6, Seite 78
"Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody — to be near him." He whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya," he cried, "I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick." - Of Mice and Men, books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=6DdcE521-BAC&pg=PA64
John Steinbeck Zitate und Sprüche
Tortilla Flat, The New American Library of World Literature Inc, New York 1959, S. 57, Übersetzung: Nino Barbieri
Original engl.: "In civilian life, one is punished for things one does; but army codes add a new principle to this – they punish a man for things he does not do."
John Steinbeck: Zitate auf Englisch
“Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.”
Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent
“He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.”
Quelle: Cannery Row
“She knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near.”
Quelle: The Pearl
“… intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over…”
Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent
“Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.”
Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent
“If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.”
Quelle: Cannery Row
“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”
Quelle: East of Eden (1952)
“It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.”
Quelle: The Pastures of Heaven
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.”
Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent
“I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe.”
Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“The flies have conquered the flypaper.”
Quelle: The Moon Is Down